In Limbo (novel)

In Limbo (novel)

"In Limbo" (ISBN 0-586-06338-2) is a 1985 science fiction novel by Christopher Evans.

It is set in contemporary Britain where its protagonist Michael Carpenter has been detained in a mysterious windowless institution called Limbo by its inmates.

Plot summary

In the first chapter Michael Carpenter awakes in a windowless institution. Although the regime in Limbo is quite liberal, Carpenter is not permitted to leave nor to know its purpose. Carpenter's fellow inmates are introduced: leftist intellectual Wright, corpulent joker Riley, fitness fanatic Treadwell and the nervous Sinnott. The highlights of Carpenter's time are his meetings with the glamorous Dr Dempster. The long second chapter details the inmates' increasing conflicts with their guards but is interspersed with flashbacks to Carpenter's earlier life. After leaving university, Carpenter has drifted from one dead-end job to another, and also moved betweenvarious unsatisfactory sexual relationships, with the strident feminist Veronica, the kleptomaniac Karen, married colleague Eleanor and the unstable Penny. The chaper endswith an escape attempt by all the inmates. The book concludes with a short third chapter describing Carpenter's first steps back in the outside world.


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